’Edtech’ boom transforms how Indian kids learn
31 March 2019 10:23 AM GMT
MUMBAI: From a multi-billion-dollar education startup to wired-up mannequins, technology is helping to revolutionize the way Indian schoolchildren are learning ? provided their parents can afford it.
- "I have been using Byju's since last year and my performance has really improved.
- Byju's has become one of the world's largest online learning sites since it was founded in Bangalore in 2011 and is currently embarking on an ambitious overseas expansion.
- At a state-run school in Mumbai teacher Pooja Prashant Sankhe is using technology in a rather different way to change how her pupils engage with lessons.
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